GmGmAm
I am not throwing away my shot
BbBb
I am not throwing away my shot
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
DmD#
And I'm not throwing away my shot
( D )
Gm
I'mma get scholarship to King's College
GmAmBb
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish
BbBdimCm
The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish
CmDmD#
I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word I drop knowledge
Gm
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
AmBbBdimCm
Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable
Dm
Only nineteen, but my mind is older
D#D
These New York City streets getting colder, I shoulder
Gm
Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage
AmBb
I have learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish
N/A
I walk these streets famished
CmDm
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
D#D
But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out my name
I am the-
GmAm
A-L, E-X, A-N, D
Bb
E-R-we are-meant to be
CmDm
A colony that runs independently
D#D
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly
Gm
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
AmBb
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
BdimCmDm
He ain't never gonna set his descendants free
D#D
So there will be a revolution in this century
N/A
ENTER ME!
Gm
(He says in parentheses)
AmBb
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me
BdimCmDm
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
D#D
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy
GmGmAm
And I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
BbBb
I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
DmD#D
And I'm not throwing away my shot
GmGmAm
I am not throwing away my shot
BbBb
I am not throwing away my shot
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
DmD#D
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Gm
It's time to take a shot!
GmGmAm
I dream of life without the monarchy
BbBbBdim
The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"
CmCmDmD#
"Onarchy?" How you say, how you s-Oh, anarchy!
D
When I fight I make the other side panicky
With my
Gm
Shot!
GmAm
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
BbBdim
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
CmDm
I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance
D#D
To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants
I'm gonna take a
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
Gm
Shot!
GmAm
Eh, but we'll never be truly free
BbBdim
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
CmDmD#
You and I, do or die, wait till I sally in on a stallion
D
With the first black battalion
Have another
Gm
Shot!
GmGmAm
Geniuses, lower your voices
BbBbBdim
You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices
CmCmDm
I'm with you, but the situation is fraught
D#
You've got to be carefully taught:
Gm
If you talk, you're gonna get shot!
GmAm
Burr, check what we got
BbBdim
Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot
Cm
I think your pants look hot
Dm
Laurens, I like you a lot
D#D
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot
GmAm
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
Bb
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
BdimCmDmD#
A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists
N/A
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is
Oh, am I talkin' too loud?
Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth
I never had a group of friends before
I promise that I'll make y'all proud
Let's get this guy in front of a crowd!
GmAm
I am not throwing away my shot
Bb
I am not throwing away my shot
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
D#D
And I'm not throwing away my shot
GmAm
I am not throwing away my shot
Bb
I am not throwing away my shot
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
D#D
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Everybody sing
GmBb
Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
Hey
Cm
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
Wooh!!
D#
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
D
Sing let 'em hear ya (Yeah)
GmAmBb
Let's go! (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
I said, shout it to the rooftops
BdimCm
(Wo-oh-oh)
Said to the rooftops
DmD#
(Wo-oh-oh)
Now come on
D
(Yeah)
Now come on, let's go
Gm
Rise up
AmBb
When you're living on your knees, you rise up
BdimCm
Tell your brother that he's got to rise up
DmD#
Tell your sister that she's got to rise up
DGm
When are these colonies gonna rise up
(Whoa, woah)
AmBb
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
BdimCm
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
DmD#
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
D
Rise up
Gm
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
Bb
When's it's gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
Cm
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it be?
D#D
Is it like a beat without a melody?
Gm
See, I never thought I'd live past twenty
Bb
Where I come from some get half as many
Cm
Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask
D#D
We have to make this moment last, that's plenty
Gm
Scratch that
AmBb
This is not a moment, it's the movement
Bdim
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went
CmDm
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
D#D
We roll like Moses, claimin' our Promised Land
GmAm
And? If we win our independence?
BbBdim
'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
CmDm
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
D#D
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
Gm
I know the action in the street is excitin'
Bb
But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'
Cm
I've been readin' 'n writin'
Dm
We need to handle our financial situation
D#D
Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?
GmGmAmBb
I'm past patiently waitin'! I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
BbBdim
Every action's an act of creation
Cm
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
D#
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow
DGmAm
And I am not throwin' away my shot
Bb
I am not throwin' away my shot
BdimCm
Hey, yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
D#D
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
We gonna
Gm
rise up; time to take a shot
(Not thrown' away my shot)
Am
We gonna
Bb
rise up; time to take a shot
(Not throwin' away my shot)
Bdim
We gonna
Cm
(rise up, rise up)
It's time to take a shot
D#
(Rise up, rise up)
It's time to take a shot (rise up, rise up)
(Wo-oah) Time to take a shot (rise up)
Take a shot, a shot, a shot, (Oh-Oh, oh)
D#
A-yo, it's time to take a shot (Woah, oh-oh oh)
Time to take a shot (Woah-oh)
And I am (And I am)
N/A
Not throwing away my
DDDDDG5
Not throwing away my shot!